Stapleton is a neighborhood in northeastern
Staten Island in
New York City in the
United States. It is located along the waterfront of
Upper New York Bay, roughly bounded on the north by
Tompkinsville at Grant Street, on the south by
Clifton at Vanderbilt Avenue, and on the west by St. Paul's Avenue and Van Duzer Street, which form the border with the community of
Grymes Hill. Stapleton is one of the older waterfront neighborhoods of the borough, built in the 1830s on land once owned by the Vanderbilt family. It was a long-time commercial center of the island, but has struggled to revive after several decades of neglect following the building in 1964 of the
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, which shifted the commercial development of the island to its interior.